Hi, The services 'enabled' in /etc/services aren't services active on your system. They merely attach a name to a port, like 'telnet is on port 23'. If you look in your /etc/inetd.conf, you can see some services like telnet, which starts up a telnet-session. Inetd looks in /etc/services to see what port 'telnet' uses. If you'd disable telnet in /etc/services, inetd wouldn't know what portnumber 'telnet' would use, and fail to open the correct listener. Enable everything in /etc/services, it's okay. Look out what you enable in inetd.conf. That's the one opening things. Rogier "Adam J. Henry" wrote:
Is there anything that YaST does (or any other SuSE configuration methods) that would overwrite my /etc/services file? I looked through it the other day and noticed that most of the ports that I disabled in the past had been enabled again.
I was planning on using Tripwire anyways, but I'm interested if this is caused by SuSE, or some other external entity.
Thanks!
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